Sentence examples for founded upon consent from inspiring English sources
If the Union could be persuaded not to attack the Confederacy, he predicted that "all those sentiments of common interest and feeling ... might lead to a political reunion founded upon consent".
The ICJ's jurisdiction in contentious cases is founded upon the consent of the particular states involved.
One cannot lie to someone who by "tacit Consent" or presumed consent "founded upon just Reason" has given up the right to exercise his liberty of judgment about some matter, "on account of the Advantage, that he shall get by it," such as when "a Person… comforts his sick Friend, by making him believe what is false," since "no Wrong is done to him that is willing" (Grotius 2005, 1215 1217).
What are they founded upon?
RevYale was founded upon this vision.
Our Teachers Institute is founded upon that belief.
Health care reform was unquestionably a law founded upon representation.
Video games are founded upon such complicated transference.
But his wealth was increasingly founded upon deception.
"Immunity is against what the UN was founded upon".
"My method," Bernard Shaw once said, "is founded upon music".
